Ethnicity of forenames
| Ethnicity of forenames | HETHERINGTON |
| Number of occurrences as forename | |
| Closest similar surname (phononym) | none |
| British or unknown | 99.26 |
| ---English or unknown | 97.53 |
| ---Irish | 0.81 |
| ---Scottish | 0.51 |
| ---Welsh | 0.41 |
| Jewish | 0.02 |
| Balkan | 0.02 |
| French | 0.02 |
| German or Dutch | 0.04 |
| Greek or Greek Cypriot | 0.05 |
| Hispanic | 0.05 |
| Hungarian | 0.00 |
| Italian | 0.04 |
| Nordic | 0.04 |
| Polish or Czech | 0.00 |
| Russian | 0.02 |
| Black African | 0.14 |
| North African | 0.04 |
| Turkish or Turkish Cypriot | 0.02 |
| Other Muslim | 0.18 |
| Indian | 0.07 |
| ---Hindi | 0.05 |
| ---Sikh | 0.00 |
| ---Other South Asian | 0.00 |
| East Asian | 0.05 |